GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



October, 1918 



AROUND THE OFFICE 



M.-A.-O. 



J. L. Byer ain 't said nothin more about 

 my comin up there fishin with him. Per- 

 haps he 's grown cold onto me. It 's allays 

 been this way — when a feller 's down he 's 

 pretty much way down and generally pret- 

 ty much alone by hisself. When Danel was 

 in the lions ' den it isn 't recorded that there 

 was a whale of a whole lot of people crowd- 

 in up to help him out any. Yet he was all 

 right and the rest all wrong, and he was a 

 pretty skookum man, too. I can stan it if 

 Byer can. 



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August was the poorest month I ever 

 see for fishin and also too the worst for 

 bees stingin. I got stang time and time 

 and again that month and I couldn't get a 

 bass nohow. Take these two things together 

 both all to oncet and it makes it about the 

 hardest time of year to keep from utterin 

 some real language and talkin the way you 

 feel like. It's the hardest time of year for 

 a reformed language user that I know of. 

 That's so, bi Sulphide, too. Bisulphide is 

 just as good a word as church or Sunday- 

 school, and I may just have to use it (separ- 

 ated a little mebbee) sometimes, and I don 't 

 want any adverse criticisin, eitli^r. When 

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